Mr. (or Mrs.) WhatsIt Currently Resides at the Cat and Crow Yarn Shop in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
I visited the Cat and Crow yesterday, and Rebekkah had a question about my most recent art work displayed there,
“We were discussing whether this is a male or a female creature,” she said. “It does have a mustache, but it is also wearing lace, and there is something feminine about it. Then someone said that the dwarf women in Lord of the Rings sometimes have mustaches, so perhaps you were thinking like that?”
To which I replied,
“I don’t think we need to impose our sys-gender societal norms on this art piece. It is neither male nor female. We don’t need to think thoughts in that limiting paradigm of male/ female. The Whatsit simply is what you wish it to be.”
I felt very deep and artsy and stuff. Mostly, though, it just has a mustache and lace because I like mustaches, and I like lace. And that is all. But perhaps that is just a different way of saying the same thing?
Testing… testing…
Sometimes these new-fangled web sites won’t let me comment.
Why, hello there, Professor! I’m glad it let you post a comment. 🙂
I’ll have to get a wider laptop—I can’t get the whole page at once.
That seems like a good excuse to buy a new laptop.